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  • The Witch of Duva by Leigh Bardugo

    The Witch of Duva by Leigh Bardugo

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girls…or so the story goes. But it's just possible that the danger may be a little bit closer to home. This story is a companion folk tale to Leigh Bardugo's debut novel, Shadow and Bone.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied...
  • Wicked Thirst by Megan Montero

    Wicked Thirst by Megan Montero

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His power will end…He is a monster and it’s all my fault. I heard whispers of a curse, but I didn’t want to believe it was true . . . I was wrong.I’ve loved Grayson Shade from the day we met and now that love has doomed him to death. He tried to warn me, he tried to protect himself but I wouldn't let him. If he'd only told me the truth, I would've let him go...
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  • The Crimson Snow by Laura Vega

    The Crimson Snow by Laura Vega

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    In the ghostly town of Coldhaven, Seraphine Ashcroft is marked by her crimson eyes, a harbinger of dark magic that isolates her from humanity. Straddling the mundane and the mystic realms, she uncovers sinister secrets about her true nature that threaten to unravel everything she knows...
  • The Powerless & Reckless Collection by Lauren Roberts

    The Powerless & Reckless Collection by Lauren Roberts

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The first two novels in the New York Times bestselling Powerless romantic fantasy series packed with spicy tension and edge-of-your-seat betrayal are now available together in one collectible hardcover boxed set—perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and The Red Queen.She is the very thing he’s spent his whole life hunting.He is the very thing she’s spent her whole life pretending to be...
  • Of Secrets and Slippers by Chanda Hahn

    Of Secrets and Slippers by Chanda Hahn

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    A haunting songA deadly danceAn explosive finaleAllemar may be dead, but his cause festers in the dark. Strange beasts stalk the night as haunting music corrupts the fog. When morning comes, nothing but dust remains. Rumors are quick to spread, with many speculating that Allemar had a son … and the evil sorcerer’s heir wants blood...
  • Inferno by Kat Ross

    Inferno by Kat Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the last volume of the Fourth Talisman series, the worlds of the living and the dead collide in a final confrontation that will leave Nocturne and Solis forever changed…. Three talismans adrift. Two mad kings. One poisonous crown. As dark forces gather at the Rock of Ariamazes in Samarqand, Nazafareen discovers that there are worse places than the afterlife...
  • Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 12 by Kaori Yuki

    Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 12 by Kaori Yuki

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Setsuna is ready to storm the gates of Heaven and rescue his sister Sara, but things are not that simple. He accepts help from the enigmatic angel Zaphikel, but finds a difficult price attached--Zaphikel is looking for someone to lead an army against the Angels and he wants Setsuna to head the charge. Sara has her own plans for escape, but they also come with a price...
  • Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 20 by Kaori Yuki

    Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 20 by Kaori Yuki

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In this final volume, Setsuna and the high angels have entered the Tower of Etenamenki and approached the throne of God. There they find all secrets revealed--the reason for the creation of angels and demons, the origins of the two wars of Heaven and Hell, and the real whereabouts of Adam Kadamon. Meanwhile, the battle outside the Tower rages on...
  • Wicked Little Sins by A.R. Breck

    Wicked Little Sins by A.R. Breck

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Welcome to Castle Pointe, where the dead never sleep. What does it feel like to kiss death?Being thrust into a town so sinister, corrupted by such malevolence, was never my intent.It was foolish to play with the dead, but so was falling for my cruel, wicked stepbrother.The fact he looked like a God didn’t matter, because I’m almost positive he was my very own devil...
  • No Time to Die by Elizabeth Chandler

    No Time to Die by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Message from a dead girl... It's too late to call back. Jenny will never speak to Liza again. But it seems that even from beyond the grave, Liza is begging her sister for help.... They say it's a serial killer. Is it? Jenny can't afford to trust anyone. Now she's here, in Wisteria, anonymously registered at the Chase College theater camp where her sister died...
  • Arising Son by Marie Montine

    Arising Son by Marie Montine

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryan Reyn has special abilities that allows him to help people with thier ailments.But he also has abilities that can annihilate everyone in the town, he just doesn't know it yet, and they are awakening...He goes to the one person who can help him with his conflicting nature.His Cassandra Wynstrom.Arising Son is the sequel to Mourning Grey, taking place twenty years after the Great War...
  • Find Me Between the Stars by Iris Lake

    Find Me Between the Stars by Iris Lake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Seven powerful individuals transcend the boundaries of morality and follow the invisible threads that bind all of their fates together. After Neira Aroya strikes a bargain with the enigmatic and dangerous Herald of Death, Orion Kallistar, she realizes that he has been holding on to secrets far graver than she could have ever imagined...
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    horror  fantasy  new adult  magic  fae  young adult  paranormal  dark
  • Shadows & Flame: Books 1-4 by C.N. Crawford

    Shadows & Flame: Books 1-4 by C.N. Crawford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's forgotten her past. Too bad her past won't return the favor. Ursula can't remember a single thing from before three years ago, so she has to keep her life simple. All she wants is to earn enough money for rent--and maybe a bit left over for a new pair of boots.But on her eighteenth birthday, all hell breaks loose... quite literally... when a hellhound shifter shows up in her kitchen...
  • The Sorceress of Lycaster by Perci Jay

    The Sorceress of Lycaster by Perci Jay

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Love is not a token you pass from one person to another. It does not abide by the laws of time, or logical sense, or reality.” Serafina Bloodstone is a sorceress. After the Queen of the Giants takes her husband, she strikes a deal with an immortal trickster. The cost—her blood bond.Through her newfound partnership, she soon realizes that Riyan is not the only one she must save from captivity...
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    horror  fantasy  paranormal  new adult  dark  young adult  magic
  • Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 14 by Kaori Yuki

    Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 14 by Kaori Yuki

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Setsuna and his team have broken into prison to rescue their ally Zaphikel. But they are shocked to find out that they're too late--Zaphikel's wings have already been cut off. Without their protection, he is infected with disease, and is on his way to becoming a flesh-devouring ghoul. Meanwhile, the evil angel Rosiel chairs a meeting of the leaders of heaven...
  • Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 16 by Kaori Yuki

    Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 16 by Kaori Yuki

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Prime Minister of Heaven Sevothtarte's plans to cement his control over the astral domain end in ruin. At the show-trial, the testimony of archangels Jibril and Raphael reveals his evil machinations, turning public opinion against him...
  • Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 13 by Kaori Yuki

    Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 13 by Kaori Yuki

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Setsuna and Sara reunite briefly in Heaven, only to be torn apart once again by the cruel angel Sevothtarte. But while Sara is finally ready to accept the responsibility that goes along with her position as Jibril, Angel of Water, Setsuna still refuses to accept his role as the savior...
  • Happiness, Vol. 4 by Shuzo Oshimi

    Happiness, Vol. 4 by Shuzo Oshimi

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    DARK APPETITES Makoto begs Nora to undo the horrific change she has wrought upon his body, even as Yuuki is increasingly consumed by his own thirst. Unaware of his escalating taste for violence, Yuuki’s girlfriend Nao is convinced that her affection can tame the beast he is becoming...
  • The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler, Sandy Young

    The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler, Sandy Young

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Let Sleeping Ghosts LieTwelve years ago Kate's family left the Westbrook estate on a stormy night, just after young Ashley Westbrook drowned in an icy pond. Now kate, alone in the world, has returned to the estate to tutor another spoiled Westbrook child, Patrick. The seven-year-old says he talks to Ashley by the pond. He does dangerous, deadly things because, he says, "Ashley dared me to...
  • The Curse of the Fallen by Abbey Fox

    The Curse of the Fallen by Abbey Fox

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    A lost prince. A powerful heiress. A destructive secret.Fleeing the castle’s gilded prison and on the run from the king, Nava and Arkimedes are confronted by a sinister shadow-figure, who looks like Arkimedes and who wants Nava dead. He vows to end the Beekeepers and bring destruction into the world...
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    horror  fantasy  fae  young adult  war  dark  paranormal  length-long
  • Happiness, Vol. 3 by Shuzo Oshimi

    Happiness, Vol. 3 by Shuzo Oshimi

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A supernatural story of sexual awakening, growing up, and suburban vampirism, Happiness follows a dorky boy who is attacked by a girl in an alley. She sucks his blood and gives him a choice: life or death...
  • Piper Prince by Amber Argyle

    Piper Prince by Amber Argyle

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can you hear him? The beast is coming for you.Long ago, a curse fell upon the land—a curse of forgetting and wraiths, a curse that ensured no daughters were born to the pied pipers in over three centuries. The pipers were all that stood between humanity and utter destruction, so they did the only thing they could: they stole the daughters of the nearby kingdom with their hypnotizing melodies...
  • The Whispering Night by Susan Dennard

    The Whispering Night by Susan Dennard

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 18 ratings
    The forest is more dangerous than ever in this highly-anticipated, pulse-pounding, and swoon-worthy conclusion to the bestselling Luminaries trilogy. Winnie Wednesday’s future is looking bright. Hemlock Falls is no longer hunting the werewolf, she and Erica Thursday are tentative friends, and Winnie finally knows exactly where she stands with Jay Friday...
  • Feast of Fates by Christian A. Brown

    Feast of Fates by Christian A. Brown

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Morigan lives a quiet life as the handmaiden to a fatherly old sorcerer named Thackery. But when she crosses paths with Caenith, a not wholly mortal man, her world changes forever. Their meeting sparks long buried magical powers deep within Morigan...
    Categorized as:
    horror  fantasy  paranormal  magic  young adult  dark
  • Happiness, Vol. 2 by Shuzo Oshimi

    Happiness, Vol. 2 by Shuzo Oshimi

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Makoto Okazaki is changing. Having turned his former bully Yuuki into a strange kind of friend, he’s been forced to help confront Yuuki’s own tormentors. But even if Makoto’s bizarre new physiology might solve one problem, it is creating others...
  • Hunted by Quinn Blackbird

    Hunted by Quinn Blackbird

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    HUNTEDA dark re-telling of the old tale, where Red Riding Hood isn't so little, and mightn't be so good after all.The villagers call her Red.It's the colour of her lips, her cloak, and the blood that stains her when she returns from the woods. The villagers call her Red for many reasons, but most of all, they're too afraid to call her what she really is. Witch...
  • Into the Darkness by Kira Adams

    Into the Darkness by Kira Adams

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was supposed to be a way to end the devastation in the Middle East, but instead a darkness has been unleashed unlike anything the world has ever seen. Ike Glass is well versed in chaos, but even he is unprepared for what the world will become after the outbreak...
  • Blessedly Bound: A Witchy Paranormal Fantasy by Lucretia Stanhope

    Blessedly Bound: A Witchy Paranormal Fantasy by Lucretia Stanhope

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gwen Hensley finds herself pulled into something life altering when she inherits a sprawling manor from a grandmother she never knew. As a witch, she uses her gift of sight to experience her grandmother die in a brutal execution by flames. The vision is only the catalyst that tosses her into a mystery involving a killer with psychopathic tendencies and a vitriol for witches...
  • A Heart of Bluestone: A Dark Paranormal Bully Romance by Quinn Blackbird

    A Heart of Bluestone: A Dark Paranormal Bully Romance by Quinn Blackbird

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Dray Sinclair will inherit the world one day. The devil in Prada has no use for masks—not at Bluestone. I should be among them, the Snakes, the future kings and queens of this world. But I am ostracised, a deadblood— And I pay the price for that everyday. I have one goal I cling to: Finish my senior year... I just need to avoid Dray Sinclair at all costs to do it...
  • The Path of Thorns (Sourdough Universe) by A.G. Slatter, Angela Slatter

    The Path of Thorns (Sourdough Universe) by A.G. Slatter, Angela Slatter

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Alone in the world, Asher Todd travels to the remote estate of Morwood Grange to become governess to three small children. Her sole possessions comprise a sea chest and a large carpet bag she hangs onto for dear life. She finds a fine old home, its inhabitants proud of their lineage and impeccable reputation, and a small village nearby...
  • The Bonds That Break Us by Erin Mainord

    The Bonds That Break Us by Erin Mainord

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    She wants revenge.He wants her.After learning of Sin’s dark deceptions, Wren travels to The Feral Vale where she is introduced to the rustic land of the elves. She vows to protect her family at all expense, even if that means keeping the Black Art’s treacherous secret...
  • Various storms and saints by viridianatnight

    Various storms and saints by viridianatnight

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
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  • We Shall Be Monsters by Tara Sim

    We Shall Be Monsters by Tara Sim

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Frankenstein meets Indian mythology in this twisty, darkly atmospheric fantasy where the horror is not the monsters you face but the ones you create.After her sister Lasya’s sudden death, Kajal vows to do whatever it takes to bring her back. No cost is too great, even if it means preventing Lasya’s soul from joining the cycle of reincarnation...
  • My Sister's Reaper by Dorothy Dreyer

    My Sister's Reaper by Dorothy Dreyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Zadie’s first mistake was telling the boy she liked she could bring her dead sister back to life. Her second mistake was actually doing it. When Zadie accidentally messes with the Reaper’s Rite that should have claimed her sister Mara, things go horribly wrong...
  • Ebonwilde by Crystal Smith

    Ebonwilde by Crystal Smith

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Get ready to be swept away, seduced, and swindled in the wickedly vicious third and final installment in the Bloodleaf series that Laura Sebastian called “enchanting, visceral, and twisty.”Welcome to Ebonwilde. Come and find me. Aurelia’s last words haunted Zan...
  • Fyrebirds by Kate J. Armstrong

    Fyrebirds by Kate J. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With tensions rising and their powers no longer a secret, the Nightbirds must decide for whom and for what they are willing to fight, and how far they will go in the spellbinding sequel to the international bestseller Nightbirds.The Nightbirds were once their city’s best-kept secret, but now the secret’s out. What’s more, they can do magic no one has seen in centuries...
  • Vicious Vows by Nicole Conway

    Vicious Vows by Nicole Conway

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Josie Barton is a force to be reckoned with. After defeating the infamous Unseelie Lord, Fir Darrig, and joining the fight to bring peace to the divided faerie courts, her life has only grown more complicated...
  • Retribution by Megg Jensen

    Retribution by Megg Jensen

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tensions are mounting in the Dragonlands. The dragon hordes are mustering, each with its own agenda. But Tressa must conquer her personal demons before answering the call to war.Gravely ill, her body undergoing mysterious and frightening changes, she travels to a distant land for the answers crucial to her survival. What she discovers rocks her to the core...
  • The Young Queens by Kendare Blake

    The Young Queens by Kendare Blake

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Three black witches, born to a descending queen. One would rise to become queen in her place. Perhaps the strongest of the three. Perhaps the cleverest. Or perhaps it would be the girl born under the best shield of luck.Katharine, Arsinoe and Mirabella - three young queens born to fulfil their destiny - to fight to the death to win the crown...
  • Legend by M.R. Leahy

    Legend by M.R. Leahy

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Releasing as part of the 2019 Sinister Fairy Tales Collection! Far, far away, hidden on Insula Sacra—Island of the Accursed— lives a forgotten world of man and beast.Damned by the Gods, and forced to live in everlasting darkness, they continue to fight a war that has long since been buried in time.With each rise and fall of the cursed moon, they are reminded of all they’ve lost...
  • A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen

    A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    One of Us is Lying meets A Deadly Education in this fantasy thriller that follows six teenage wizards as they fight to make it home alive after a malfunctioning spell leaves them stranded in the wilderness.Ren Monroe has spent four years proving she’s one of the best wizards in her generation...
  • The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

    The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Young Rhea is a miller’s daughter of low birth, so she is understandably surprised when a mysterious nobleman, Lord Crevan, shows up on her doorstep and proposes marriage. Since commoners don’t turn down lords—no matter how sinister they may seem—Rhea is forced to agree to the engagement.Lord Crevan demands that Rhea visit his remote manor before their wedding...
  • Something by Shelby Lamb

    Something by Shelby Lamb

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***A Special Revised Edition is of this book is available now. Please update your copy. Make sure it says "special revised 3rd edition" with Shelby Anonymous as the publisher :)*** Blurb:"I will find true love and everything will be okay. I will find true love and everything will be okay..." she chanted. They say be careful what you read. Something is wrong. Something is very wrong...
  • Prince of Darkness by Amber Thoma

    Prince of Darkness by Amber Thoma

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The new religion left no place in Havenston for a human witch like Etain. It not only jeopardizes her safety and livelihood, but threatens a fiery death as well. That didn’t mean she was prepared to be stolen away to the Fae Realm.Ciaran must find a way to break his curse in order to become the true king of the Night Court...
  • These Wicked Stars by Catelyn Wilson

    These Wicked Stars by Catelyn Wilson

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If you know what you want, you will never find it.Hazel Blackthorn is an outcast, the bastard daughter of a nameless sailor and a disgraced mother. She will do anything to marry her secret fiancé, Linus, and escape her oppressive life. When Linus announces he must marry her cousin in order to save his family’s crumbling business, Hazel is heartbroken and her hope for the future crushed...
  • His Rejection by Chazminne Harrison

    His Rejection by Chazminne Harrison

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Nova Lucas has always been excited about for the day she would meet her mate. Her Prince Charming, her Knight in Shining Armor, her Protector... He'd take her way from all of the horrible people in her pack; but the last thing she expected when she woke up on 16th birthday was for the guy who ruined her life to be her beloved mate...
  • By These Ten Bones by Clare B. Dunkle

    By These Ten Bones by Clare B. Dunkle

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There's hidden places all over this land-old, old places. Places with a chain for them to chain up the wolf when it's time. A bone-chilling tale of werewolves and love, set in medieval Scotland A mysterious young man has come to a small Highland town. His talent for wood carving soon wins the admiration of the weaver's daughter, Maddie...
  • Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan

    Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    'Why would I? People are uneasy enough with me - if I start bringing up sea-wives, they'll take against me good and proper.' 'It could be secret.''Could it?'On remote Rollrock Island, the sea-witch Misskaella discovers she can draw a girl from the heart of a seal. So, for a price, any man might buy himself a bride; an irresistibly enchanting sea-wife...
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